12(1)Where immediately before the appointed day there is in force an agreement which—E+W+S
(a)confers or imposes on the Corporation any rights or liabilities; and
(b)refers (in whatever terms and whether expressly or by implication) to any provision of the 1972 Act, to the Corporation’s statutory gas undertaking or to statutory purposes,
the agreement shall have effect, in relation to anything falling to be done on or after that day, as if for that reference there were substituted a reference to the corresponding provision of this Act, to the Corporation’s undertaking as a public gas supplier or, as the case may require, to purposes connected with the supply of gas through pipes to premises in the Corporation’s authorised area.
(2)In this paragraph “authorised area” and “public gas supplier” have the same meanings as in Part I of this Act.
(3)References in this paragraph to an agreement include references to a deed, bond or other instrument.